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The Office of the University Chaplain hosts

Peabody Award winning journalist Krista Tippett is the host of the nationally syndicated “Speaking of Faith” program of “religion, meaning, ethics, and ideas”. A leading voice in talk radio, Ms. Tippett has interviewed luminaries such as Thich Nhat Hanh, Dr. Mehmet Oz, Prof. Karen Armstrong, Gov. Mario Cuomo, theologian Martin Marty, and writer Annie Lamott. Ms Tippett’s most recent venture, “Repossessing Virtue is part of [an] ongoing series exploring the moral, spiritual, and practical aspects of the economic downturn”

[http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/first-person/repossessing-virtue/].

Seating is limited. Contact COMMONMEAL@COLUMBIA.EDU

The Great Issues Forum

Alex De Waal, General Barry McCaffrey & Thomas Ricks

Does military intervention work? What is the role of non-military and multi-national groups in regime change and peace-keeping efforts? Three distinguished participants discuss their perspectives on peace keeping and regime change. Featuring Alex de Waal, program director of the Social Science Research Council, General Barry McCaffrey, four-star general of the United States Army (retired). and Thomas Ricks, The Washington Post’s Special Military Correspondent. Thomas Weiss, Presidential Professor of Political Science at The Graduate Center will moderate.

March 10th 2009, Tuesday, 7:00 pm

Proshansky Auditorium

The Graduate Center, CUNY

365 Fifth Ave (btwn 34th & 35th)

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Reservations required.

Please visit www.greatissuesforum.org or call (212) 817 8215 to register.

Andrew W. Mellon Seminars in the Humanities at The Center for the Humanities

The Skylight Room (9100)

Two pioneering political and cultural theorists discuss the historic tensions between western secularism

and gender equality. Wendy Brown is Professor of Political Science at the University of California - Berkeley.

Joan Wallach Scott is Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study. Moderated by Anthony Alessandrini,

Assistant Professor of English at Kingsborough Community College, CUNY.

Martin E. Segal Theatre

Join two prominent scholars of American civic life for a discussion about the past and continuing influence of

religious thought on American politics. Featuring Randal Balmer, Professor of Religious History at Columbia University,

and Douglas Kmiec, Professor of Constitutional Law at Pepperdine University. John Torpey, Professor of Sociology

at the Graduate Center, will moderate.

Co-presented as part of the Great Issues Forum. For more information, please visit www.greatissuesforum.org

What is Faith Today?

The Skylight Room (9100)

Two leading social scientific analysts of global religion discuss the nature of religious faith today and

the prospects for better understanding of the ever-elusive problem of religious faith in modern society. Bryan Turner

is Director of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Muslim Societies at the University of Western Sydney.

Philip Gorski is a Professor of Sociology at Yale University. Moderated by John Torpey, Professor of Sociology at

The Graduate Center, CUNY.

Elebash Recital Hall

Do we live in a secular age? What does it mean to say that we do? Join Bill Connolly, Professor of Political

Science at Johns Hopkins University, Simon Critchley, Professor of Philosophy at the New School University, and

Hent de Vries, Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University, as they discuss these and other questions.

Moderated by Jill Stauffer, Resident Mellon Fellow at the Center for the Humanities.

Does the State

The Skylight Room (9100)

Join two legal and political theorists as they examine religious threads running through modern secular

philosophy, political theory, and the state itself. Paul Kahn is Director, Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for

International Human Rights, Yale University. Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of

Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College. Moderated by Jill Stauffer, Resident Mellon Fellow

at the Center for the Humanities.

All events take place at

LAUNCH of the Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life

Thursday, November 6, 1-6:30pm, Rotunda, Low Memorial Library Convened by co-directors Mark C. Taylor, Chair of Department of Religion and Alfred Stepan, Wallace Sayre Professor of Government.

1-2:30 pm The Past and Future of Religion and Toleration Toleration Faculty Working Group: Karen Barkey, Rajeev Bhargava, Akeel Bilgrami, Ira Katznelson, Sudipta Kaviraj, Alfred Stepan, and Nadia Urbinati with Charles Taylor, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at McGill University

3-4:30 pm Art, Religion and Politics: Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Thomas Krens, Director of Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation

5-6:30 pm Literature and Terror
Salman Rushdie, whose Midnight s Children (1981) was recently named the best novel to have received the Man Booker Prize Opening remarks by Lee C. Bollinger, President of Columbia University Introduction by Orhan Pamuk, 2006 Nobel Laureate in Literature

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The Earth Institute at Columbia University has assembled its 2008-2009 Student Advisory Council with two students from the Journalism School who will assist in developing student and academic activities for the campus around the issues of earth systems science and sustainable development.

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Dear Students,

I realize it may feel as though you’ve just gotten here, but some of you
have already expressed preliminary interest in our dual-degree program
with the School of Journalism at Sciences Po in Paris.

This note is to inform you that Stephanie Durand and Agnes Cheveau, who
administer that school, will be here next Tuesday, September 16 and are
prepared to meet with interested students at 4:00 in the Stabile Center.
This will be a general-information session; we do not expect you or
Sciences Po to make any commitments at this early date.

Please let me know if you plan to attend.

Regards,

DK

David A. Klatell
Chairman, International Studies
Professor of Professional Practice
Graduate School of Journalism
Columbia University
New York, NY. 10027
ph: 212-854-3319
fax: 212-854-3939

MEI: “The Role of the Media in the Israeli-Palestinian
Conflict: A conversation with Danny Rubinstein”
Date: September 9, 2008 from 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 1501
Contact: For further information regarding this event, please contact Megan Hazle at mh2694@columbia.edu.

SIPA, The Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, the Middle East Institute at Columbia and Americans for Peace Now present a conversation with Danny Rubinstein, Israel’s longest serving West Bank correspondent. Ori Nir, spokesperson for Americans for Peace Now will moderate.

Danny Rubinstein, Israel’s longest serving West Bank correspondent, recently retired from Ha’aretz Daily after a long career as a senior commentator on Palestinian affairs. He is now a columnist for Yedioth Ahronoth’s economic supplement, Kalkalist. Having covered the West Bank and Gaza since they fell under Israeli occupation in 1967, Rubinstein is one of the most trusted and respected experts worldwide on Israeli-Palestinian relations. He is the author of several books, among them People of Nowhere: The Palestinian Vision of Home, and The Mystery of Arafat, a biography of the Palestinian leader. Rubinstein, a native of Jerusalem, teaches at Hebrew University and at Ben Gurion University in the Negev.

Dear Students:

WHY and the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism will be honoring the winners of the 2007 Harry Chapin Media Awards on Tuesday, October 7 starting at 6 pm at CUNY. The event will begin with a cocktail hour and CBS News Sunday Morning anchor Charles Osgood will give a keynote address.

Prior to the awards ceremony, the winners will participate in a panel discussion from 3-5 pm moderated by Trudy. The confirmed participants are: Carlos Caminada of Bloomberg Markets; Bent-Jorgan Perlmutt, a director of Lumo; Scott Haissen from The Miami Herald; Jonathan Cohn, author of Sick; John Bowe, author of Nobodies; Mona Reeder of The Dallas Morning News and Donald McNeil Jr. of The New York Times. The journalists will discuss their work and the challenges they face reporting on poverty-related issues.

Thank you so much!

Best,
Lisa

Lisa Ann Batitto
Communications Director
WHY

505 Eighth Ave., Suite 2100
New York, NY 10018
Telephone: 212-629-8850
Fax: 212-465-9274

Nina Bernstein
Reporter, New York Times

Children Lost and Found: Thirty-Five Years After Wilder
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
12:30 - 1:30 (Room C03) (more…)

The Earth Institute at Columbia University would like to invite you to join them on October 23rd from 4 to 7pm in the Low Library Rotunda for a Columbia University Environmental and Sustainable Development Programs Open House, where you will be able to find out about the many resources available to Columbia students interested in earth systems, environmental policy and sustainable development. From majors in environmental studies to degree programs in Environmental Engineering, Environmental Policy, Climate and Society, Columbia has a great deal to offer.
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You are cordially invited to a lecture and book signing with author and NBC chief foreign correspondent Andrea Mitchell.

Ms. Mitchell is the author of Talking Back…to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels, published by Penguin. Her reports are featured on NBC Nightly News, Today, and Meet the Press.

She is the former chief White House correspondent for NBC and has reported on presidential politics since 1972.

Monday, April 30, 2007

8 p.m.

The Joyce B. Cowin Center at Teachers College

Copies of her book will be available for purchase and signing that evening.

RSVP by Friday, April 13 at 212.678.3955

or by email at tcinvite@tc.edu

“POLITICS WITHOUT SOVEREIGNTY?”

DATE: Saturday, February 24

TIME: 12:30-2

LOCATION: Lindsey Rogers Room, 7th Floor International Affairs Building

What is the ‘Unholy Alliance Against Sovereignty’?

Can Sovereignty Be Defended?

Has the sovereign state been superceded by the UN,

EU, Global civil society, or US Empire? Should it?

can we have politics without sovereignty?

Come find out, as the editors of

‘Politics Without Sovereignty: A Critique of Contemporary International Relations’ (Routledge)

Alex Gourevitch (Columbia),

Chris Bickerton (Oxford),

Philip Cunliffe (King’s College London)

discuss their new book with Professor Jack Snyder.

Saturday, February 24th, 12:30pm at Lindsey Rogers Room, 7th Floor International Affairs Building

Discounted copies will be available at the launch.

For more information on the book go to www.said-workshop.org/book.php

The Religion Graduate Students Association of Columbia University is accepting registration now through March 23, 2007 for:

“Pop Goes Religion: Exploring the Relationship between Religion and Popular/Consumer Culture”

Thursday March 29, 2007
Columbia University, New York
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/religion-gsa/

Featured Guests:

Keynote Speaker: Ronald Inden, Professor Emeritus of History and of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago

Closing Discussant:

Laurel Kendall, Curator of Asian Ethnographic Collections at the American Museum of Natural History and Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University.

Description:

This conference will investigate the impact of popular and consumer culture on religious practice, worship, and experience, including how they are shaping and reforming the understanding and self-understanding of different religious traditions and religious practitioners. Also under consideration are the ways popular and consumer cultural practices have influenced scholarship on and the actual teaching methods of religion, particularly in the field of religious studies. Finally, we will likewise explore the impact of religion and religious themes and ideas on popular and consumer culture.

Columbia University Sponsors:

Department of Religion, Department of Anthropology, Graduate Student Advisory Council (GSAC)

For schedules, panel information, abstracts, and bios, please go to: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/religion-gsa/

Event Details:
Deconstructing Terrorism Using Socioeconomic & Geopolitical Lens

Date: 28th Nov 2006; Time: 6pm to 9pm

Location: Alfred Lerner Hall, Party Room

Details: RSVP Required; Dinner provided for Round table discussion

Speakers: Ambassador Prasad Kariyawasam, Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka; Council of Foreign Relations (3 Speakers), Center on Terrorism, John Jay College (2 Speakers), Columbia Uni(4 Speakers), Drew University.

Event Format: Brief Intro of Speakers & Round table discussion w/dinner.
RSVP & More info at www.deconstructterrorism.com

From: Tony Dokoupil, a doctoral student of communications in the J-school, and a freelance journalist who has written for New York Press, Newsweek, and Publisher’s Weekly.

CJAS Monthly — the online sister publication of the Columbia
Journal of American Studies — seeks a NEW EDITOR and EDITORIAL
TEAM. It’s a unique journal — bit of a fixer upper — but
definitely something with great potential. We’re open to creative
redesigns.

HISTORY and MISSION

CJAS exists in the borderland between academia and journalism,
publishing high-quality cultural commentary with a broad audience
in mind. It’s funded by Columbia’s Herbert H. Lehman Center for
American History, and was founded last year as the online
compliment to the decade old print edition of the Columbia Journal
of American Studies — which is peer-reviewed, printed annually, and
distributed through Labyrinth Books and university libraries across
the country.

CONTRIBUTORS

In less than a year, CJAS Monthly has attracted contributions from
journalists, professors, and freelance writers whose work also
appears frequently in The Believer, Commentary, The New York Times,
The New York Observer, Publisher’s Weekly, and TIMEOUT New York.

REACH

— One of three national journals recognized by the American Studies
Association:
http://www.americanquarterly.org/index.php/resources/country/C34/

— Searchable through research library systems across the country,
including the systems at Columbia and Michigan State:
http://er.lib.msu.edu/item.cfm?item=000401

IF INTERESTED, PLEASE SEND A COVER EMAIL WITH A BIT ABOUT YOUR
INTERESTS AND EXPERIENCE TO TONY DOKOUPIL at td2158@columbia.edu.

www.CJASmonthly.com AND www.columbia.edu/cu/cjas/

Q: How do I take an outside elective?

A: M.S. students are encouraged to make use of the greater Columbia University course offerings to further their knowledge base in areas of particular interest and relevance to their journalistic goals. Classes (except for languages) must be graduate level and must be approved by the Dean of Students office.

M.A. students are required to take outside electives each semester. Classes must be graduate level and must be approved by your discipline professor.

For further information, please go to http://snurl.com/outside_classes

Please note that M.S. students must complete our course preference balloting and registration process with the intention of taking all your classes at the Journalism School (since cross-registrations aren’t always possible, you should carefully complete your ballot). Registration for outside courses is a function of add/drop.

ASIA PACIFIC AFFAIRS COUNCIL
WEATHERHEAD EAST ASIAN INSTITUTE

Cordially invite you to network with industry professionals at the
Media Career Event

Panelists:
Fred Katayama, J’83, Award winning CNN correspondent –
Currently anchor at Reuters Television

Susan Berfield
Associate Editor, Businessweek

Oisika Chakrabarti
Officer, U.N. Department of Public Information

Paul Cohen
Vice President, Corporate
Ketchum Public Relations, NYC

Alejandro Reyes
Former Asiaweek journalist –
Currently freelance writer and consultant

Questions: Contact Amy Ahn at - asa6@columbia.edu

JUST SHOW UP!

Co-sponsored by the International Media & Communications Concentration

Joint Event with Columbia School of Journalism

Evening Speaker: Joseph Nocera, Business Columnist New York Times (and adjunct prof at the J-School)

when: Thursday, November 16, 6:30 – 8PM
where: Warren Hall
contact: Kara Keenan at kk2258@columbia.edu

Students are welcome to participate in an evening speaker event on Thursday, November 16 in Warren Hall from 6:30 – 8PM. Mr. Nocero will be prepared to answer students’ questions.

Joseph Nocera is a business columnist for The New York Times, and a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, specializing in business stories. Prior to joining the Times this past April, Nocera spent 10 years at Fortune Magazine, where he held a variety of positions, including contributing writer, editor-at-large and executive editor. His last position at Fortune was editorial director.

Joseph Nocera. Some of his most acclaimed feature stories in Fortune include “Fatal Litigation,” his account of the battle between plaintiff’s lawyers and Dow Corning over the silicon breast implants; “The Buzz Factory,” an inside look at the business of Conde Nast; and “Heard on the Street”, the story that first exposed the rift in the family that owns the majority stake in Dow Jones. Nocera’s coverage of the Microsoft antitrust trial was also widely praised. Nocera has won two Gerald Loeb awards and three John Hancock awards for excellence in business journalism. His 1994 book, “A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class,” won the New York Public Library’s 1995 Helen Bernstein Award as the best non-fiction book of the year. He anchored the 1997 Frontline documentary, “Betting on the Market,” which aired on PBS, and, in 2003, edited “The Smartest Guys in the Room,” the best-selling book about Enron written by two Fortune senior writers.

Nocera was the Profit Motive columnist at GQ until May 1995 and he wrote the same column for Esquire from 1988 to 1990. In the 1980’s, he served as a contributing editor at Newsweek; as executive editor of New England Monthly; and as senior editor at Texas Monthly. From 1978 to 1980 he was an editor at The Washington Monthly. In addition to his work at the Times, Nocera serves as a regular business commentator for NPR’s Weekend Edition with Scott Simon.

Nocera earned a B.S. in journalism from Boston University in 1974. He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts with his wife and their three children.